Here are some patches top be applied to a Mandrake distribution.

 - Sub-directory 2.6.8.1-mdk contains additional patches to kernel
2.6.8.1-20mdk. They can be applied with low risk.

 - Sub-directory 2.6.9-nbmdk contains the corresponding patches (less
because some of them have been included in the official kernel) for a
vanilla kernel 2.6.9. It is far from a possible Mandrake kernel.

 - Sub-directory 2.6.11.3-nbmdk contains the most recent Alps touchpad
 patches (March 2005) from Peter Osterlund which solves former non
 working double tapping. I don't know why theses patches are still not
 filed in the official kernel. Please notice that you need to upgrade
 synaptics to version 0.14.1 (and qsynaptics to 0.22.0) in order to
 run the Alps driver. I did not include the ivtv patches because there
 was some missing symbols in the depmod phase. You can get the
 corresponding Mandrake rpm on the same server.

 - In the test-patches, you will find the sony-radeon-video-post.patch
concerns Sony Vaio with radeon video card. Refer to
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3670 to get more information. It
could help resuming to RAM by including the video_post command into
the kernel...  Never applied myself because I prefer to execute the
command itself by including it in an hibernate script.

Nicolas Brouard
March 2005